Sunday, June 30, 2013

If anything was taught to us by the jury in the Casey Anthony trial, today's world is one in which we must brace ourselves for disappointments.

Before our eyes, good is bad, and bad is good, up is down, and down is up. Those who sing songs of freedom move quickly to erode freedoms, while those who marched for free speech, now approve of squelched speech. Workers good, employers bad, thinking bad, feeling is good. We are continually being reminded that we must be braced for bad news...or, that it may be: no news at all.

Why should justice be spared the impact?

Hailey Dunn's remains were found and the case appeared complete. Mother, Billie Dunn and her boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, were so into drugs and sexual blood shed as a hobby, the only question about them was, "What took them so long?" instead of "who done it?"

Curtis Lloyd, the citizen who found Hailey's remains, was unable to speak. This was done to protect the integrity of the case, which is a nice way of saying: We don't want Dunn's lawyer getting this information now.

Has the deadline for the gag order now expired? Will it be renewed, or allowed to be shelved?

In 1997, a Colorado Grand Jury indicted John and Patsy Ramsey in the child abuse death of their daughter, Jonbenet, but it was not until 2012 that we learned that the cowardice of Alex Hunter, showed itself in his refusal to sign the indictment and try the case.

He did not dare go up against the private attorneys hired by the Ramseys.

The private sector draws the talent because it pays far more than the state.

So it is that no arrests have been made, but this is not our first disappointment. The Casey Anthony jury taught us to brace ourselves for such things.

There have been other easy to solve cases in which there exists no "who done it" yet there have been no arrests:

In prior analysis, we showed that Michael Jackson not only could not bring himself to deny sexually molesting young boys, but that his 'leakage' showed that he likely had victims all over the world, and that the number was very high; higher, perhaps, than what is reported here.

Here is an article from today's NY Daily News..see second article after

Michael Jackson spent $35 million to cover up molestations of 24 boys: report

The King of Pop hired a private investigator to collect all the skeletons in his closet and bury them, according to an explosive report in London's Sunday People. But now a former associate of the investigator is talking.

Jordan Chandler (right) and his family received $20 million to keep his inappropriate relationship with the pop star quiet, according to the Sunday People report.

The documents – identified as case numbers CADCE MJ-02463 and CR 01046 — were apparently never turned over to prosecutors in the sensational 2005 trial that cleared Jackson of molestation charges.

In a twist, the bombshell files dating to 1989 were assembled by private eye Anthony Pellicano, who Jackson hired to make sure the skeletons in his closet stayed out of the spotlight.

Pellicano is now in prison, serving a 15-year sentence for racketeering and wiretapping in an unrelated case — but one of his ex-associates opened up to Sunday People.

SAM MIRCOVICH/REUTERS

Private detective Anthony Pellicano was supposedly hired by Michael Jackson to collect and bury the musician's secrets. Pellicano is currently in prison on unrelated racketeering and wiretapping charges.

“I was hired by him to find out where the fires needed putting out and, in this case, where allegations would be coming from,” the unidentified sleuth said.

Jackson’s other alleged victims include a European boy and the sons of a screenwriter.

JEFF RAYNER/COLEMAN-RAYNER

The Neverland Ranch was where Wade Robson alleges he was molested by Michael Jackson.

At least three boys got hush money, the Pellicano investigator said.

The family of one of them, a well-known young actor, received nearly $600,000 “to refrain from any and all contact with media and communications, newspapers, television, radio, film and books,” the newspaper reported.

The files also include interviews with former Jackson aides who claim the pop king was obsessed with child porn.

They describe how the Thriller hit-maker was once caught by a member of his household staff groping a world-famous child star, watching porn films while molesting another boy and fondling the genitals of a third in his private cinema.

The mother of one of the youngsters was sitting two or three rows in front of them at the time – unaware of the vile abuse her son was suffering.

Ironically, many of the damning reports in the FBI collection had been commissioned by Jacko himself.

Terrified the parents of boys who spent nights with him at his Neverland ranch might go to the cops or expose him in the media, the desperate singer hired “private eye to the stars” Anthony Pellicano to target potential skeletons in his closet – and make sure they stayed out of the limelight.

But when Pellicano was investigated himself in 2002 for bugging Hollywood stars such as Sylvester Stallone, the FBI seized all his files – including many about Jackson. It is copies of these to which the Sunday People has had exclusive access.

The latest revelations about Jacko’s lurid past come as his private life is once again in the spotlight – even though four years have passed since he died from heart failure aged 50.

His family are currently suing gig promoters AEG Live for £26billion, claiming they hired Dr Conrad Murray, who gave Jacko the dose of the anaesthetic propofol that killed him.

AEG deny employing Murray, now serving a four-year jail term for involuntary manslaughter.

The files will also dismay Jacko’s kids Prince, 16, Paris, 15, and 11-year-old Blanket, who have not yet come to terms with losing their father.

In fact, Paris tried to kill herself by slashing her wrists just three weeks ago and is still in hospital.

But there is yet more shocking news for the singer’s family – Jackson’s former child pal Wade Robson, a dancer and once one of his most stalwart defenders, has just launched a major lawsuit against his estate.

Robson, now 30, claims he was often molested at Neverland during his regular visits to the infamous ranch during the 1990s.

The Aussie-born choreographer for pop stars such as Britney Spears and Demi Lovato claims the abuse started when he was only seven and continued until he was 14.

The files seen by this newspaper appear to confirm Robson’s claim to be one of many child victims who were invited to fulfil Jackson’s sick fantasies at his isolated playground in the Californian countryside.

Pellicano is now behind bars serving a 15-year jail sentence for racketeering and wire-tapping.

The investigator, whose name we are withholding, said he was among those quizzed by FBI agents probing his old boss. And he kept copies of many of the Jackson documents now held in the bureau’s archives.

The paedophile allegations – sandwiched between thousands of pages of information about Jackson, his career and his accusers – include inter-views with ex-aides who claim their boss was fixated with child porn.

The files name 17 boys – including five child actors and two dancers – Jacko singled out for abuse.

Other kids the singer preyed on include a European boy and the sons of a screenwriter.

At least three boys got hush-money, the investigator said, with the family of one well-known young film actor ­being given £392,000 “to refrain from any and all contact with media and communications, newspapers, television, radio, film and books”.

The gagging order also insisted there would not be any attempt now or in the future to “extort, intimidate, harass or impede” the Jackson organisation.

A maid who worked for the singer at Neverland was said to have been paid off with about £1.3million after complaining her son had been abused by her employer. And the investigator told of one shocking case of a mother who knew her young son was being molested by Jackson “but turned a blind eye to it because if it didn’t bother him, it didn’t bother her”.

Many of the files on the victims – whose names are not being published for legal reasons – were originally pulled together by lawyers drawing up a list of a potential threats to Jackson’s paedophile secret in the early 1990s.

The legal team was scrambled after the dentist dad of 13-year-old Jordan Chandler went public with claims his son had been abused – opening the door to a string of accusations involving other kids.

The sleuth who worked for Pellicano said: “Around 1993 things were really heating up. The suggestions were Jordie was not the only victim. The momentum became so great Jackson needed a private investigator to go straight for the jugular and produce results.

“His actress friend Elizabeth Taylor encouraged him to hire Pellicano ­because she had used him to stop dirt on her drug problems being released in the media – Pellicano was a master of negotiation and keeping stars’ ­reputations clean.

“I was hired by him to find out where the fires needed putting out and, in this case, where allegations would be coming from.

“But I have never worked on a case with as many potential claimants as the Jackson case.”

The investigator, who spent two years on the case, saw Pellicano’s ruthless methods first-hand in the frantic bid to salvage Jackson’s Mr Clean image.

He said his boss encouraged his extensive contacts in the media to call the singer’s victims after he paid them off so they could publicly deny he ever touched them. It was part of a relentless campaign to clear the megastar’s name.

The investigator said: “There was a mountain of allegations levelled at Jackson and Pellicano was determined to prove his client innocent.

“He promised Jackson, ‘I can make this go away’ and he wanted me to dig up everything that was around on him and then began smoothing it over.

“Pellicano had links to key figures in the US media and made them dance to his tune. He was very good at starting fires – but also at putting them out. By the end we had at least 10 boxes of documents about Jackson.”

He went on: “The FBI had all that information long before Jackson’s 2005 trial. I’m surprised this evidence never came to light.

“Then again, if the pay-offs were successfully executed, no one would have spoken.

“At the time, Jackson was on a world tour, battling drug addiction and planning his next CD and future.

“If these files had been released then, Jackson’s career would have been over. But he was the King of Pop and spending the equivalent of a year’s royalties was worth it to keep him on his throne. With the help of people like Pellicano, the world and his fans never heard what took place at Neverland over 15 years.”

Saturday, June 29, 2013

I don't know how anyone with investigative experience, or with just common sense, can read the statements of Amanda Knox, and not see the connection of hers with the sexual homicide. Here, readers of Statement Analysis understand sensitivity indicators, and know to highlight the word "normal" when it appears.

Even a 2nd grade reader knows that when a story says, "It was a normal day..." the day will be anything but normal.

Here, look at the statement of Knox' boyfriend.

Meredeth died as a result of a sexual homicide. The statements made by Amanda Knox show not only deception, but verbal indicators of sexual homicide. She was present for Meredeth's death.

Amanda Knox arrives at the courthouse for the appeal trial in Perugia, Italy.

The man accused of killing a 21-year-old British student with Amanda Knox has opened up about his sex life with his former girlfriend, saying it "wasn't boring" and involved talking about their fantasies.

Italian Raffaele Sollecito, 29, who along with Knox was freed on appeal in 2011 after being convicted of the 2007 murder, told The Sun meeting Knox was like “being hit by a thunderbolt”.

“Our relationship got very intense, very quickly,” he said.

Sollecito met Knox just five days before Meredith Kercher, 21, was found dead from a slashed throat in the apartment she shared with Knox in Perugia, Italy. Prosecutors painted the murder as an orgy gone wrong.

ABC via Getty Images

Amanda Knox during an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC

“I didn’t have much experience of sex. She had a bit more than me. We were sleeping together and our sex life wasn’t boring,” Sollecito said of Knox.

“We talked about fantasies and asked each other what we liked and so on but it was totally normal.”

Knox, now 25, and Sollecito were initially convicted of the crime and sentenced to long prison terms. A Perugia appeals court acquitted them in 2011, criticizing virtually the entire case mounted by prosecutors. The appellate court noted that the murder weapon was never found, said that DNA tests were faulty and that prosecutors provided no murder motive.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito outside the rented house where 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found dead, in Perugia, Italy.

But in March, the Court of Cassation overturned the acquittal and now Knox and Sollecito must face trial again.

Both Knox and Sollecito denied any involvement, saying they weren't in the apartment at the time.

A young man from Ivory Coast, Rudy Guede, was convicted of the slaying in a separate proceeding and is serving a 16-year sentence.

“It feels like I am in a horror movie where they keep making sequels," Sollecito said.

AFP/Getty Images

Raffaele Sollecito is congratulated in Perugia's Court of Appeal after hearing that he won his appeal against his murder conviction on October 3, 2011

“The prosecution has a theory without real evidence or facts. It is extremely painful. It seems so personal, like they are determined to draw me back into this nightmare.

“I survived the flames of hell once and now they are pulling me back into them. It feels like a war. I was 23 and had just met a great girl.

“Why would I suddenly violently murder someone I hardly knew with someone I had only met five days earlier? It makes no sense.”

Speaking of his relationship with Knox, Sollecito said: “Because of what happened we never got the chance to see what would happen in our relationship. Who knows we might even still be together now.”

"Based on the conversation I had with law enforcement yesterday, they've only found two percent - or approximately two percent - of his remains. That means there's 98 percent of my son still strewn about the countryside."

“That means there’s 98 percent of my son still strewn about the countryside”— The subject’s focus is more on the location of the remains rather than whether or not they have been found.

“strewn” suggests widespread.

"I want to talk to them about going to the location so I can be close to my son, but i don't know the specific locations where the remains were found," Mark Redwine said, after explaining that his home faces Middle Mountain.

“the location”—a known location. Singular. One place. One should wonder why the subject says “the location” when he believes the remains are spread across a wide area. (“…strewn about the countryside.)

The subject changes language from “location” to “locations”. A change in language indicates a change in reality for the subject.

Here the subject demonstrates that when Dylan was “my son”, he relates to one location. When Dylan became “the remains”, the subject relates to more than one location.

As a complete and intact body, Dylan would be buried in one location.

Note: We should also wonder if the change in language occurred because “the location” to be close to his son is a different place altogether than “the specific locations” where the remains were found?

“You can't run far enough or hide under any rock that can't be turned over.”

One should wonder if Dylan was originally buried and a rock was placed over the spot to prevent animals from digging up the remains. A large rock would need to be turned over and over on itself for placement.

MR: I normally wouldn’t , but I do, I do blame myself . I relive this a thousand times and every time it comes back to I s-seeing him laying on the couch and I didn’t try hard enough, maybe, to wake him up to have him come with me knowing that he had talked about going to spend time with his friends and letting him sleep like he does so many time before, I beat myself up over that constantly. But that’s not helping me. And it’s not helping Dylan. I mean, it’s hard enough for any parent to have to deal with something like this and to sit here and beat yourself up over and over and over again about what you could have done differently, could have made the difference is a—not helping me stay strong which is what I feel like what I need to do for Dylan. I don’t know how to do it and I struggle with that every day, but it’s something that I believe I have to dig down deeper and deeper every day and find the will and find the strength to stay strong for him because I believe that he needs both of his parents. He needs me to do that for him and I know he needs his mom to do that for him.

"I normally wouldn't"--"normally"--there is something about this situation that is different from previous ones. What other events have occurred similar to this one? Is there a history of his children 'disappearing'? Has he been accused before of harming his children?

"I relive this"--"relive this" speaks to a specific moment in time where an event of note took place. We don't "relive" hum-drum, day-to-day, non-important moments. His brain holds onto this moment. Why?

“I-- s-seeing “—the subject starts to say something about himself, but changes his mind. This is an important point of edit.

"seeing him laying on the couch"--not "sleeping". Was Dylan doing something other than sleeping? The subject’s next sentence. “I didn’t try hard enough, maybe, to wake him up” indicates Dylan was not conscious. Was he asleep? Unconscious? Deceased?

"beat myself up"--physical violence. The question was "Do you blame yourself?" and he acknowledged he did blame himself. But then he moves to saying "I beat myself up" indicating that for him, “blame” and “beating up” are connected.

"beat yourself up"--no longer, "myself". He has distanced himself from this action. Still, he uses "beat up", a physically violent action.

"struggle" - 1) an attempt to overcome a problem or 2)a physical altercation. This word is very important to the subject. It appears often in his language.

"dig down deeper and deeper"--not just "deep" but "deeper and deeper" suggesting he got to one level but then decided he had to dig further. He got to another level and decided he still had to go further.

NOTE: This may be “leakage” of what the subject’s brain knows. One should wonder if it relates to the disposal of Dylan’s body.